Nina Isabelle
77 Cornell St. #316
Kingston, NY 12401
ninaisabelle@me.com
(814)777-6990
Nina Isabelle (1973, United States) received her BA in Art from Westminster College in 1999.
Nina is a multidisciplinary artist, working most recently with abstract painting and performance. Her background also includes alternative process photography and interpretive / improvisational physical movement.
By applying abstraction, Nina finds that movement reveals an inherent awkwardness, a humor that echoes our own vulnerabilities. She also considers movement as a metaphor and looks to a self-developed cryptograph based on archetypes, body metaphors, disease process and instinct to decipher authentic mark-making and pedestrian movement.
Her paintings focus on the inability of communication which is used to visualize reality, the failure of dialogue, the dissonance between form and content and the shortcomings of literal language. In short, the lack of clear references are key elements in her work. By investigating language on a meta-level, she creates personal language by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
Her work isolates the movements of the human body in relationship to external sensory input. By doing this, new sequences often emerge which reveal hidden relationships between motion, sound, and objects. Her interest in the transformative capabilities of sound waves and the correlations between specific Hz and physical body structure resonances have recently lead to the integration of auditory elements in her performance work. By questioning the concept of skeletal movement and breath in relationship to sound she grapples with further nuances of language. Transformed into art, language and perception become a phenomena of psychic imprint and, ambiguities and discrepancies inherent to the phenomenon, are forced to the surface. Nina’s work rarely references recognizable form. Visual language is deconstructed to the extent that meaning becomes shifted and interpretation can become multiperceptual.
Nina Isabelle currently lives and works in Kingston, NY.
Solo Exhibition
-The Random Community Generator, Star House Gallery, NY, 2014
-Inner Mayhem, Metropolis Collective, Harrisburg, PA, 2013
-Handmade Photographs, Bibliotheque, Salt Lake City, UT, 1999
Performance
-The Q: Entity, The Art/Life Institute, Kingston, NY 2015
-The Silent Mass Generator Wkshp., Grace Exhibition Space Shirt Factory Archive Space #411, Kingston, NY 2015
-Mirror, Taylor Hall at Western State College University, Gunnison, CO, 2005
-What Do We Have? / Vanity / Death, The Gunnison Art Center, Gunnison, CO 2002
-Dischordant Student Senior Project Performance, Jewett Center, Salt Lake City, UT 1999
Group Exhibitions:
- Silent Mass Generator Workshop, Grace Exhibition Space Shirt Factory Studio, 2015
- Instinct, The Parliament, York, PA 2015
- Posthumous Collaberations, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2015
- Abstract Mediums, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2015
- Witness: The Cedar Tavern Phone Booth Show, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY, 2014
- Old Pro, Punk Rock Fish Studio, Berlin, MD, 2014
- Art Along The Hudson at S.P.A.F, Saugerties, NY 2014
- Star House Gallery, Studio Sale, Kingston, NY, 2014
- Varga Gallery Memorial Day Group Show, Woodstock, NY, 2014
- Bold And Bright curated by David Barr, Artspace,Falls Church, VA, 2014
- Ethos of Abstraction-Nina Isabelle/Lucienne Weinberger, Stray Cat Gallery, Bethel, NY 2013
- The Garden Cafe, Woodstock, NY 2013
- Diagnosis Artist, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2013
- Half Your Age, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 2013
- Kinetic, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY 2013
- Art Foray,Wired Gallery, High Falls, NY 2013
- Home Grown, Hole In The Wall Gallery, Mechanicsburg, PA 2013
- Outer Expressions of Inner Mayhem, solo show, Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA 2013
- Bits & Pieces, The Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA 2012
- Cool Cats, Hole in The Wall Gallery, Mechanicsburg, PA 2012
- Fall Season Show, Greenpoint Gallery,Brooklyn, NY 2012
- IDIOM, Unison at Water Street Market Gallery, New Paltz, NY, 2012
- The Maltese Falcon, Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 2012
- Trash Art Gallery at The Metropolis Collective, Mechanicsburg, PA, 2012
- The Handmade Photograph, Mills Pond House Gallery, Smithtown, Long Island, NY, 2012
- Sex 7, Projekt 30, NYC, 2012
- Cornell St. Studio, Kingston, NY, 2012
- Varga Gallery, Goddess Show, Woodstock, NY, 2012
- Erotica, Tivoli Artists co-op, Tivoli, NY, 2012
- Birds of a Feather, Varga Gallery. Woodstock, NY, 2012
- Paintings / Drawings, Lovebird Studios, Rosendale, NY, 2011
- Season Show, Art @ Home, Kingston, NY, 2011
-Wings Gallery, Rosendale, NY 2010
-South Main Studios, Gunnison, CO, 2007
-Paragon Gallery, Crested Butte, CO, 2007
-The Gunnison Arts Center, Gunnison, CO 2002-2005
-Jewett Center, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, UT 1999
-Sundance Gallery, Sundance, UT 1998
-Weber State College, Weber, UT, 1998
-P.S.A.D Student Gallery, Lancaster, PA, 1992
-Centre Film Lab, State College, PA, 1990
-Art Alliance of Central Pensylvania, State College, PA, 1989
-Pennsylvania State Capital Bulding, Harrisburg, PA 1988
Bibliography:
-Nina Isabelle at Falls Church Arts, ‘Bold & Bright,” by James George, Arlington Art Examiner.
-If It Isn’t Not Broken, Don’t Unfix it, by Bruce Gussin, Life and How to Live it.
-Stumps For The Outsider, by Timothy Malcolm, Times Herald Record.
Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5joer_gcyKQ
Curating:
-Recent Paintings by Chad Gallion, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2015
-Through The Lens: The Sudbury Photo Show, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2015
-Adam & Jeff: An Abstract Painter and His Mentor, Star House Gallery, KIngston, NY, 2014
-Parallel Places: Owen Harvey / Michael Hunt, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY, 2014
-The Cedar Tavern Phone Booth Show, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY 2014
-Isaac Abrams / Kelly Bickman, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY, 2013
-Narrative, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY, 2013
-Artist Talk: Kerry Mueller, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY, 2013
-Diagnosis: Artist, Star House Gallery, Kingston, NY, 2013
Residency:
-Artist in Residence, Gunnison Art Center Summer Residancy Program, Gunnison, CO, 2006
